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| Surfwise 5/20/2008 6:30:04 PM Arresting, but clichéd Only at the end does this work significantly misstep, with a clichéd “heartwarming” family reunion surely orchestrated by the filmmaker. |
| Reprise 5/20/2008 6:00:46 PM Accomplished, with grace and accuracy Trier captures the moment when the recklessness of youth gives way to adult responsibilities, and the way childhood friendships can fall apart when different paths are taken. |
| Never Forever 5/20/2008 5:47:33 PM Sulky and not believable Although Kim has her pulse on religious, racial, and social conflict, she relies too much on contrived plotting. |
| Numb Skull 5/20/2008 4:24:48 PM Indiana Jones’s mild Kingdom You can’t say they don’t warn you. |
| Darkness visible 5/19/2008 1:22:11 PM The HFA’s ‘Unseen Noir’ unveils America’s post-war gloom Welcome to the dark territories again, the republic of bitterness and bile known as noir. |
| The Big Hurt: Tragic kingdom 5/20/2008 4:57:55 PM Hard Rock Park about as awesome as it sounds The whole Hard Rock enterprise — which started as a café and has since branched out into hotels, casinos, and a vast nationwide network of lame T-shirts — has built great success on the idea of “rock.” |
| All together now 5/19/2008 6:53:11 PM A Boston Unity Fest sampler Most Boston rappers who are talented enough to succeed beyond the Bean have been collaborating for a minute. |
| Bangers + Mush 5/19/2008 3:56:31 PM Dizzee Rascal and El P at the Middle East Downstairs, May 11, 2008 About five years ago, when grime came crashing through the gates, many thought that England had finally found a homegrown answer to American hip-hop. |
| Breaking through 5/19/2008 2:30:09 PM Esperanza Spalding steps up her game In the overall retail picture, jazz accounts for about three percent of sales, and a “hit” CD is anything that exceeds 10,000 copies. |
| Another fine mess? 5/19/2008 2:12:12 PM Real Life Time Machines clean up . . . Real Life Time Machines are not insane morons. |
| The accidental gangsta 5/19/2008 1:16:24 PM Elemental Zazen has been through some shit Elemental Zazen wears Sauconies on stage and has “World Peace” tattoo’d on his forearm. |
| Monday, we're in love 5/19/2008 12:54:26 PM The Cure, Agannis Arena, May 12, 2008 Witnessing the Cure was like an inexplicably uplifting trip through a never-ending black hole. |
| Soul purpose 5/19/2008 12:04:04 PM The BellRays get us all kinds of worked up The BellRays — whose married core is singer Lisa Kekaula and guitarist/bassist Bob Vennum — have been making music since 1990. |
| Spring releases II: The quickening 5/19/2008 11:37:11 AM André Obin, Zer0 G, Dutty Artz, and DJ C Last week I discussed a trio of new drone and improv releases by local artists, but there’s a bounty of homegrown beat-based recordings due out this spring as well. |
| Boston music news: May 23, 2008 5/19/2008 10:46:27 AM Notes on the Submarines and two great local benefits There are two worthwhile benefits coming up this week. |
| Jazz hands 5/19/2008 10:39:12 AM Geoff Farina’s new Glorytellers There was a time when it was easy to hate Geoff Farina. Well, maybe hate is too strong a word. |
| Collections of Colonies of Bees 5/19/2008 4:17:18 PM Birds | Radium If one extension of math rock is Battles’ experiments with poppy aggression, Collections of Colonies of Bees prove that the genre doesn’t have to sublimate angst into vocoded aggression. |
| V/A 5/19/2008 4:25:25 PM Ed Rec Vol. III | Ed Banger Pedro Winter a/k/a Busy P’s Ed Banger Records seems to specialize in dance/hip-hop made by and for reformed metalheads. |
| Moe Pope + Headnodic 5/19/2008 4:21:20 PM Megaphone | NatAural High/Koch Megaphone is my favorite murder-free rap album since Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek’s Train of Thought. |
| No bull 5/19/2008 4:19:09 PM Herb Alpert at Scullers There was nothing campy or kitschy about Herb Alpert’s local appearance this week, and in a way that’s a shame. |
| A certain kind of disorientation 5/20/2008 12:57:47 PM Anish Kapoor at the ICA, MCC Award Winners at Boston Sculptors, And ‘8 in ’08’ at Massart Home-grown new sculpture is alive and well right here right now, as Boston Sculptors Gallery regularly reminds us. |
| What's left behind 5/20/2008 11:46:45 AM Tap Olé at the Regent, Rachid Ouramdane at the ICA, Prometheus at Boston Conservatory Tap Olé is less a new-fangled bicultural fusion than a return to tap dancing’s foundational swingtime. |
| Channeling Shakespeare 5/19/2008 3:19:59 PM Cardenio at the ART; King John at ASP Cardenio, an early-17th-century play in which Shakespeare may well have had a hand, has been MIA since its debut and will doubtless remain so. |
| Maestro! 5/19/2008 2:47:21 PM Interview: Mark Morris picks up the baton Next week, the Celebrity Series of Boston brings back Mark Morris’s dance setting of Henry Purcell’s 17th-century English opera Dido and Aeneas. |
| Sweet madness 5/19/2008 11:00:55 AM Marya Hornbacher’s bipolar life Just reading this book exhausted me, so I can only imagine how tired Marya Hornbacher must have been after writing it. Or perhaps it came easily to her. Most things seem to. |
| Flash-forward 5/20/2008 5:15:04 PM Lost’s endgame Fifteen years ago, I fell in love. It didn’t end well. |
| Frill rides 5/20/2008 4:38:07 PM Getting an Indy history lesson on DVD Looking back on a time when action sequences unfolded without the currently fashionable veil of rapid editing and CGI. |
| Robyn Hitchcock 5/19/2008 4:29:10 PM Sex, Food, Death . . . and Insects | A+E Robyn Hitchcock, in one of many illuminating moments of reflection during this 53-minute documentary, posits that his songs “don’t appeal to meatheads.” |
| Helter-skelter 5/19/2008 11:12:11 AM The World Ends with a bang, not a whimper New gameplay quirks erupt from The World Ends with You like popcorn from an industrial-strength popper. |
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